Crossword clues for gestalt
gestalt
- Unified whole, in psychology
- Wolfgang Köhler's movement
- Integration that exceeds the sum of its parts
- It exceeds the sum of its parts
- It's more than the sum of its parts
- A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
- Wolfgang Köhler's movement
- Psychological school
- Organised whole of largest alto section
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1922, from German Gestaltqualität (1890, introduced by German philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels, 1859-1932), from German gestalt "shape, form, figure, configuration, appearance," abstracted from ungestalt "deformity," noun use of adj. ungestalt "misshapen," from gestalt, obsolete past participle of stellen "to place, arrange" (see stall (n.1)). As a school of psychology, it was founded c.1912 by M Wertheimer, K. Koffka, W. Köhler.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being) 2 shape, form
WordNet
n. a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
[also: gestalten (pl)]
Wikipedia
Gestalt, a German word for form or shape, may refer to:
- Holism, the idea that natural systems and their properties should be viewed as wholes, not as collections of parts
Gestalt was the name of a system call introduced into the Apple Macintosh operating system System Software 6.0.4 in 1989 to allow applications to dynamically query what capabilities were present in the running system configuration.
By this time, the pace of Mac development had produced such a proliferation of hardware configurations and hardware and software add-ons from Apple and third parties that a simple version check was no longer enough to determine the features of the system. Instead, Gestalt maintains a dynamically-extensible table of OSType selector codes.
For instance, instead of checking the system version to deduce what version of the Sound Manager might be present, there is a separate Gestalt selector for directly querying the capabilities of the Sound Manager. Thus, it could be made possible for an application dependent on capabilities introduced in a newer Sound Manager to run on an older system which had the updated Sound Manager installed as an add-on, as well as on a newer system which had the new Sound Manager built-in. And of course the Sound Manager add-on could also query this Gestalt selector first to decide whether there was any point in installing itself into the current system.
The value returned by querying a selector code is 32 bits, whose meaning depends on the selector. Some selectors define this as a version code, while others use it as a bit mask of available capabilities. Some subsystems define both types of selectors, allowing querying of both the version number and the capabilities. Some even use a Gestalt selector to pass the address of a shared block of data, or even the address of code that could be called. Since the piece of code that installed a Gestalt selector could either install a simple static value or a callback that Gestalt would invoke every time somebody queried the selector, it was possible for the value returned to vary dynamically from call to call, to reflect information about the current state of the subsystem.
The Macintosh Programmer's Workshop also provided a tool named Gestalt which allowed the developer to test for various features using the command line.
is an 8-volume fantasy manga series by Yun Kōga and published by Square Enix and later by Ichijinsha that later spawned a two episode OVA series.
Gestalt is the fifth full-length studio album from Sioux Falls, South Dakota Rock band The Spill Canvas. It was released on May 22, 2012. It received 4 out of 5 stars by reviewer Brendan Manley of Alternative Press.
Usage examples of "gestalt".
Idee zu gestalten und auszufeilen, wie sein Bruder Govannon, der erste der Schmiede, es liebte, mit seinen Werkzeugen ein Schwert zu gestalten und zu schleifen.
Instead, he had separated into his six component gestalt humaniform robots and vanished.
Gestalt erblickt: jetzt kommt er, der lahme Kerl mit dem stinkenden Atem!
Her mental kinesis augmented by a gestalt with the powerful generators that encircled her installation, Siglen could pick up messages from as far away as Earth and Betelgeuse, could locate and land freight drones as easily as others lifted the ordinary artifacts of everyday living.
Wunder der Sehnsucht waren seine Werke, der Sehnsucht nach Form, Gestalt, Begrenzung, Koerperlichkeit, der Sehnsucht hinueber in die klare Welt des anderen, der unmittelbar und mit goettlichem Mund die besonnten Dinge bei Namen nannte.
I immersed myself in psychology texts: clinical, personality, psycho-metrics, learning, experimental psychology, animal psychology, physiological psychology, behaviorist, gestalt, analytical, functional, dynamic, organismic, and all the rest of the ancient and modern factions, schools, and systems of thought.
He opened the message, and his eyes flew all over it in mad saccades, trying to absorb it as a gestalt.
This theory, via Schelling, would lead to much of Gestalt psychology and autopoietic theories of cognition.
Sie kannten ihn, erkannten sein Gesicht ohne jeden Zweifel: das Grauen, das sie trieb, sichtbar geworden, ihre Angst in leibhaftiger Gestalt.
Die ziere Gestalt eines nackten kleinen Maedchens, welche, unreif und zart gegliedert, ihre Haendchen in koketter Keuschheit auf der Brust kreuzte, hielt er am Kopfe erfasst und musterte sie eingehend, indem er sie langsam um sich selbst drehte.
Atemzug lang wurde die strudelnde Gestalt des Grauen Mannes schwarz wie die Nacht.
Also schaute ich in den Kristall und sah seine Kammer in Mur y Castell und die Gestalt eines anderen Mannes, der dort neben Blodeuwedd schlief.
Also to worry about whether he himself was a neurotypical, and if so, was that now bad, in the gestalt of Crake?
I believe our next great evolutionary advancement will be some kind of whacky gestalten outgrowth of the body and the beaner.
Flesher gestalt, limited by anatomy, was much more subdued than the polis versions, but ve thought ve could detect a growing number of faces expressing consternation.